PC will not recognise HDD at boot-up.

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Stuart Roberts

Just the other day I left my computer on doing a virus check, etc. When I
went back to it, it had tried to re-boot and on the second DOS-style boot up
screen (just before it flips to the WinXP sequence) it said it could not
detect any kind of device to boot from.
I re-booted but the same. I went into the BIOS to select auto detect my
IDEs, etc. It would not auto detect either. I tried loading the fail safe
setting in BIOS but still the same.
I left the machine off for an hour or so and returned. It then booted up!
This morning the computer hung during a windows session. I gave my PC case a
gentle whack and for a second it un-hung itself before going to a big blue
screen telling me something about an unknown error and finished with a
memory dump comment. Nothing at all happened after that. Then I had the same
problem as before, until I left the machine for a while and went back to it.
I have noticed my system slowing down lately but it is only about half full.

Any ideas? Is it the hard drive failing? Mother board?

Thanks
Stu
 
Any ideas? Is it the hard drive failing? Mother board?
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Don't thump your computer, WinXP has artificial intelligence and
when you abuse your computer it will refuse to run ;-)

Make yourself a boot diskette, boot the computer with the
floppy, type chkdsk at the prompt and then a boot up WinXP in safe
mode to perform a complete de fragmentation.
If you get a bad file make a note of the filename, if something
happened while your computer was running the anti-virus software it
could have damaged some files it was checking. If the file is a
component of installed program, uninstall and then reinstall the
program. If it is a document, database or necked girlz I hope you have
a back up.

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Best Regards,
Keith
http://kilowatt-radio.org/ NW Oregon Radio Page
 
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